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KILWARDBY, ROBERT (d. 1279)

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KILWARDBY, See also:ROBERT (d. 1279) , See also:archbishop of See also:Canterbury and See also:cardinal, studied at the university of See also:Paris, where he soon became famous as a teacher of See also:grammar and See also:logic. Afterwards joining the See also:order of St See also:Dominic and turning his See also:attention to See also:theology, he was chosen provincial See also:prior of his order in See also:England in 1261, and in See also:October 1272 See also:Pope See also:Gregory X. terminated a dispute over the vacant archbishopric of Canterbury by appointing Kilwardby. Although the new archbishop crowned See also:Edward I. and his See also:queen Eleanor in See also:August 1274, he took little See also:part in business of See also:state, but was energetic in discharging the spiritual duties of his See also:office. He was charitable to the poor, and showed liberality to the See also:Dominicans. In 1278 Pope See also:Nicholas III. made him cardinal-See also:bishop of See also:Porto and See also:Santa Rufina; he resigned his archbishopric and See also:left England, carrying with him the registers and other valuable See also:property belonging to the see of Canterbury. He died in See also:Italy on the 11th of See also:September 1279. Kilwardby was the first member of a mendicant order to attain a high position in the See also:English See also:Church. Among his numerous writings, which became very popular among students, are De ortu scientiarum, De tempore, De Universali, and some commentaries on See also:Aristotle. See N. Trevet, Annales See also:sex regum Angliae, edited by T. Hog (See also:London, 1845) ; W.

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Hook, Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury, vol. iii. (London, 186o-1876); J. Quetif and J. Echard, Scriptores ordinis Predicatorum (Paris, 1719-1721).

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